From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: apiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems.
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:06:20 +0200
On Saturday 15 of May 2004 14:20, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> The problem is the 2.6.6 kernel muxed my drive and when it fscked upon
> reboot it deleted /etc/mtab and lilo.conf!
What fs are you using?
> Luckily I restored them from a backup and now run 2.6.5 and it is working
> fine.
>
> Linux 2.6.6 is a nightmare.
>
> I am looking into the benchmark problem with 2.6.6 now.
>
> --- In linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@xxxx> wrote:
> >Now whenever I reboot it says input/output errors when it tries to mount
> >the drive? I will look into this further.
This errors are HARMLESS and CAN'T corrupt your data.
Please see http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2672 for description+fix.
Cheers,
Bartlomiej